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adjective

cubical, cube-shaped adj. Shaped like or approximately like a cube.

Synonyms: cubelike, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal.

Cubical, Cubic adj.

Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.

(Crystallog.) Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization.

Cubic equation, an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube.

Cubic foot, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its dimensions.

Cubic number, a number produced by multiplying a number into itself, and that product again by the same number. See Cube.

Cubical parabola (Geom.), two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions.

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Etymology of 'Cubical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cubical" Quotes from Famous Books

... even of the bucolic mind. Parliament has already done something in this direction by declining to be an accomplice in the asphyxiation of school children. It refuses to make any grant to a school in which the cubical contents of the school-room are inadequate to allow of proper respiration. I should like to see it make another step in the same direction, and either refuse to give a grant to a school in which physical training is not ...

— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley

... this way will require a longer time than when the water is kept boiling furiously, but it is superior in every respect and more digestible. Something depends upon the shape of the piece cooked, thin pieces requiring less time than a thick, cubical cut; but approximately, first allowing fifteen or twenty minutes for the heat to penetrate the center of the meat, at which time the real process of cooking begins, it will require from twelve to fifteen minutes for ...

— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

... ten; and the acre four thousand eight hundred and forty: that according to the fourth, fifth, and sixth resolutions of the former committee, upon the subject of weights and measures, agreed to by the house on the second day of June in the preceding year, the quart ought to contain seventy cubical inches and one half; the pint thirty-five and one quarter; the peck five hundred and sixty-four; and the bushel two thousand two hundred and fifty-six. That the several parts of the pound, mentioned in the eighth resolution of the former committee, examined ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... each from two to four inches thick: we exposed twenty-seven feet of one fold running along the side of the road, which was cut parallel to the strike. Each layer of quartz was separated from its fellows, by one of mica scales; and was broken up into cubical fragments, whose surfaces are no doubt cleavage and jointing places. I had previously seen, but not understood, such flexures produced by metamorphic action on masses of quartz when in a pasty state, ...

— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker

... HERSCHEL'S day considered the bodies of the solar system as separated from each other by distances, and as filling a cubical space. The ideas of near and far, of up and down, were preserved, in regard to them, by common astronomical terms. But the vast number of stars seemed to be thought of, as they appear in fact to exist, lying on the surface of a hollow sphere. The ...

— Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works • Edward Singleton Holden

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